Despite the route, and despite the particular name on the door. It is miraculously in one piece. I don't really know how long they had it for testing or how thoroughly they tested it. I know a lot of their more experienced drivers got a hold of it as well as the terminal manager himself apparently at one point.
But yeah, not a route i would envy by any means. I go in and out of long beach enough as is.
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Recent load.
Blade was actually secured from above by steel cables, couldnt sit it on the deck like I wanted, chain to protect it from rotating.
Still 800 over on the rear, but ripper was against the neck soooooooo.
Currently on a 1400 mile dead head.
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Permit lady seemed to think there wouldn't be a problem with it.
Either way Washington didn't give it a second look and every other weigh station that I went through was closed.cke, Lostkeys, PoleCrusher and 5 others Thank this. -
I like watching u equipment guys tho, looks like it would be a fun gig, but from ur posts alot of headaches involved as well sometimes . sounds like overall everything is going good with u guys. Glad to see you out from under the swift beurocracy and making it out on ur own . thats the American dream right therecke, Lostkeys, PoleCrusher and 9 others Thank this. -
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And at least when I get machinery or vehicles or whatever on, a lot of times loading or unloading is simply down to how quick I can drop the deck and tie it or untie it.
"Sign here im gone"
I mean every now and then you end up waiting on a crane or something but I still ain't nothing like the old days when I was doing refrigerated and you didn't know if he was going to pull in there for 4 hours or 24 sometimes (which while the latter was rare it did happen more than once)
And then that big 15 wide crate that I took down to Wilmington. Me and the escort we're still out on the street when the dude came out immediately to meet me and we both rolled into the yard and they had two giant forklifts lifted up high enough for me to slip the trailer out from under it and it was an easy in and out in 20 minutes you know. Don't always go smooth but in that case they were ready for us they were in place like they were supposed to be. And for the most part that's been how everything's gone for me other than having to sit on a site waiting for the crane to call us back or something you know. Which in the last 3 months I've only really had one major wait for unload. And that's cuz it was an active construction site and they were bringing everything in in a very specific order and all that. Cuz it was going straight from trailer to roof.
And with the way that we order stuff ahead of time as far as permits go sometimes days in advance or more we don't have so many issues with having to wait for those. Only snafu there really comes down to holiday weekends and stuff like that so far.
I've just been enjoying every minute of it. Like I said it brought some enjoyment back to the job for me. And since the vast majority of the time I'm the one physically loading the trailer I put a lot more thought into things and I suppose that's something I've always liked.
But yeah Swift could offer me 200k a year and I'd tell em to go pound sand. That is an environment that I can no longer tolerate. But you know working with people that actually respect what you do and what you can do. And that are actually there fighting for you, that's something you can't really trade. -
That’s the beauty of certain machinery’s. It’s all on you. Not dependent on anyone except getting checked out.
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